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The long-distance friendship
Yesterday one of my friends announced she was moving to Houston. I’m happy for her to be embarking on a new part of her life, but sad at the same time, because it’s been my experience that once friends leave, so do the phone calls and e-mails. While social networking sites such as Facebook and MySpace have made it easier to keep in contact with those who live far away, long-distance friendships can still be hard to maintain. I Googled around today, to see if there was any advice out there on how to preserve them, and here is what I found. Most of the Web sites stated that the first step is to commit to the friendship. Essortment, which publishes various online articles, suggested making a friendship calendar, where you mark which friend you last spoke to and on what day of the month. The Web site also encouraged people to plan an annual get together to keep in contact. I’m not so hot about the calendar idea, but an annually scheduled get together sounds like a good idea.
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By Tyesha
December 3, 2008 10:25 AM | Link to this
Michele, I’m so thankful to have you as a friend. Houston isn’t that far away, and I will come back to visit. We’ll always be friends. I pinky swear.
By james ngari
December 26, 2008 8:14 AM | Link to this
i am a 38 year young carpenter married with two boys aged 6 and 13.i work in northern kenya eastern africa. bordering somalia in the east. i have always loved to have a friend across the world america or europe or asia canada russia or australia. to exchange ideas and even visit each other if possible.anybody is wellcome to be my friend old and young black or white gay or straight.